. >> 10 people were shot on baltimore streets. kim dacey is live with that story. >> we just learned of two more shootings, one of last night and one early this morning. the one this morning was fatal. police are trying to determine if any of the shootings are linked from early saturday night to early sunday morning. 10 people were shot. many of the victims were young. there is a program. inner-city teenagers and young adults watched an episode and hopefully learn from mistakes their characters make. >> we wanted people to make better choices. it is the environment they are exposed to and live-in that is so negative what a good choice looks like. >> rewired is holding some summer workshops. for more information, you can visit our website, wbaltv.com. >> thank you. nearly 1000 people wanted on outstanding warrants have had their cases resolved. 991 people turned themselves in as part of the fugitives safe surrender. this originated in cleveland five years ago. offenders can turn themselves and and be granted favorable consideration

reaction when you heard that jack abramoff had just been released from prison to a halfway house in baltimore this week? >> well, i knew it was going to and frankly, you know, i thought he had spent enough time in a might well have gone to prison but didn't. he's out in a halfway house. i think that's all right. >> when was the first time that you thought about doing your documentary, brand-new, called "casino jack and the united states of money"? stories in "the washington post," and i was astounded really by sort of the audacity of the story and how colorful it was. so i thought it would make a good movie because i'm always interested in stories per se, and jack is a fascinating character. very colorful, very outrageous. at thh same time, the other interesting to me was it was a story that seemed to me to poont out the most fundamental problem in our democracy right now, which is the way that money rules our democracy. it's beccme so unbalanced that i think it's become the fundamental problem in our society. >> let's un a clip just so the audience can get some sense of where you're going wi

host: what do you do in baltimore, ohio, jim? caller: service connected 100% disabled veteran, retired from being a car mechanic for a number of years and now i'm a house husband. my wife works. host: georgia, independent line. scott. caller: good morning. the quick point. everybody has been bashing mr. moore, and i would like to join in, too. you really need to add to defy him for what he is. he is just a far right wing republican. that is his viewpoint, and it has always been that. he is pretty much wrong on everything. host: we have never hidden his viewpoint. as you know as a regular watcher of "the washington journal," we have people from viewpoints from a to z on this program. caller: well, yes, somewhat. i guess the problem is, like other people have said, sometimes when people are trying to make a point, a kind of get cut off and he gets to redirect it. anyway, real cloak -- quick, he and a lot of other people want to go with this flat tax, it is not fair, everybody should pay the same amount of tax. comrade, they don't b

host: baltimore, independent line.aller: what is the difference between the gross domestic product and the gross national product? i get the impression of the gross national product, goods and services corporations overseas, that we would probably have a better bottom line. in this regard, what percentage of corporations pay no taxes? i hear statistics that may be 75% pay no taxes. how can we recouped this? what is a gross national product, not domestic product elapid why not do like the old days with savings bonds that we can sell to the country they can go for education and grandchildren, paying 5%? i would love to have a 5% return on my money and i would not mind it lending the money to my country. if they default, we all the fall together. guest: there is a lot there. [laughter] let's see if i can get it all answered. one, investors can loan the government money today with treasury bonds. unfortunately we are now approaching almost 50% of our debt being owned by foreigners. again, mainly by the chinese. battles say

lending practices that helped bring on this crisis, parties to a lawsuit against wells fargo in baltimore county, maryland, and in my hometown of memphis, tennessee. improving fair credit access, supporting sustainable homeownership and promoting financial literacy are among the great priorities. the naacp was supportive of the resolution that the 110th congress passed to -- for the first time in our nation's history, apologize for slavery and jim crow laws and to make clear that the vestiges of jim crow and slavery would be affected by the future congresses. today's commemoration of the naacp's 101st anniversary occurs as the organization prepares for its convention, one nation, one dream, the title, to be held in kansas city, missouri, on july 10 through july 15. at that time hundreds of naacp leaders and members will consider bowled and innovative a-- bold and innovative approaches tackling the 21st century. among those leaders will be benjamin todd jealous, the president of the naacp, the current chairman, roselyn brock, former chairman, washington bureau director, hillary shelton, an

our baltimore high school is located in west baltimore.r students in tehran with declining attendance and yet we managed to graduate over 80% and many of them have post secondary placement. -- our students attencome in wih declining attendance. there are students to keep track of other students and they look after them. every day, they check and see if if they are and school. it can be tough sometimes but sarcasm does not work. the teachers can maybe to a handful of kids but they cannot do hundreds. finally you add on social workers because there is a high rate of kids where -- is so strong. if a student is staying home to get their insulin shot, until we see that, no ranking will get that kid to school. tte real answer to all of this is the teacher team. the answer is not structural change or getting high-quality teachers, it is the team of four teachers working with 75 kids who were then supported by good instructional material. that should be the fundamental unit that we build everything up from. to bring this to scale, we need to think

host: there is a headline in the "baltimore sun." it shows a picture of president obama joined with other national leeders. how is president obama going to people to do what he feels needs to be done in order to keep economic recovery going on in the united states? callerguest: i think we have tot this in context. different countries are coming along at a different rate of recovery. you find pretty much countries like china, they are recovering very strongly. then you have the other end of the scale, country's life greece and some of the european nations which have huge debt. it is all about trying to find a balance between the right prescription for the different countries. i do not think there is one size fits all solution. it is coming to a balance of what is the right rate of debt reduction that does not lead into a double-dip recession. i know there was a lot of talk about a risk of the g-20 nations. it looks like officials are laying down the notion of the risk. they are trying to present some type of common thread. host: we be

right now, there's a nurse saving a life in baltimore. 20 minutes later, she'll bring one into the worldin seattle. later today, she'll help an accident victim in kansas. how can one nurse be in all these places? through the nurses she taught in this place. johnson & johnson knows, behind every nurse who touches a life... there's a nurse educator... who first touched them. ♪ you're a nurse ♪ you make a difference >> larry: congressman markey, how tough should the president be on bp? some say it wouldn't pay. >> it's impossible to be too tough on bp. my heart goes out to mr. jones and his family for his loss because we now know that bp was running through all kinds of red lights, warnings that had been going off in the hours and days before this accident occurred. and so i think it's important for the president to force bp to put together a compensation fund. it's important for bp to be told that they won't be making the decisions. it will not be the chief counsel of bp who decides who gets compensated, that an independent evaluator of all the claims will make those decisions and that we

he worked at the "baltimore sun" before he had his blog, where he regularly report on the decisions ofthe court. would you join me? joan biskupic is a supreme court reporter for "usa today" and has been covering the court since 1989. we have learned that folks who cover the court stay there for a long time. it is a complex institution and a small community. their tenure is recalling long once they are there. she is a lawyer and has just finished her second biography of justice is on the court. first was on saturday o'connor, her most recent one, which we are featuring tooight and will have copies for sale later on. and they got -- and a biography of justice antonin scalia. john, would you please join me? and for a nother -- joan, would you please join me? and for another perspective, we have asked marine money to join us tonight -- maureen mahoney to join us tonight. she has won 22 of the cases that she has argued before the court. she is known as recently for presenting the university of michigan and the affirmative action case that she won. her first case before the court was in 1988

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on the world cup, fans in washington and baltimore give their theories on why professional soccer isn'tas widely popular in the u.s. as it is abroad. gwen isle talks about covering the oil disaster. and on art beat, jack previews the summer movie season. jeff. >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online and again here on monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

months and he went through a drug rehab program and got out early to go to a halfway house near baltimore. i think that -- i mean, i knew him. i had met him very briefly long ago prior to going into prison. but i did in fact go visit him while he was in prison. we had a number of very long talks. it was very interesting and instructive for me. i tried very hard to interview him on camera, but the department of justice took a very dim view of that and intervened. >> why? >> i don't know why. we tried very hard to get an answer from the department of justice to say why would you resist us? and of course their point of view would be they didn't resist. officially, jack -- at one time jack said yes, we want to do it, and we put everything in motion. and then the word came back from abramoff, no, i do not wish to be interviewed by mr. gibney. i discovered in the interim, the department of justice had leaned veey hard on abramoff and said, you know, you do the interview, and we're going to make life difficult for you. so, you know, a little abuse of power in my view. allo i think something that

. >> brown: thurgood marshall was born in 1908 in baltimore, the great grandson of a slave. his father was a railroad porter. his mother a school teacher. he attended lincoln university and law school at howard, the historically black institution in washington d.c. at a time when his home state, university of maryland, was still segregated. >> i wrote.... >> brown: thurgood the play is presented as a one man 90-minute talk to students at howard. with a now elderly marshal looking back and recounting key moments in his life. >> one day i'm sitting in the dining room, the bailiff comes in. judge, judge, fred, i told you not to bother me while i'm eating. but, judge, the president wants to talk to you. the president of what? the president of the united states. >> brown: originally staged on broadway two years ago, thurgood was written by veteran film and tv producer and director george stevens jr.. >> it's the man that makes the play possible because he had a gift for narrative. and a sense of humor. and through his life, he was telling stories to illustrate his experiences and

and there's no way to sugarcoat that. >> baltimore is an interesting example because it's one of the few places where it's finally getting to scale. this year there is more high school kids or new kids or schools that were started in the past decade or so than schools that were started a couple of years ago. and you can see them going up in the newer starts or their restarts. so i do think you see that high turning when the sense is that there's enough good spaces ifer a lot of people. it's not just -- for a lot of people. it's not just a few. from the kids' point of view, no one understands that the schools are going nowhere other than the kids. they get a sense not much is going on. nothing's going to happen. i can miss some days. the reason you get traumatic results, they will put everett because they see it's an engaging place to be. it's going somewhere. keeping the kids' point of view is important because they can vote with their feet and with their effort. >> do you have anything on this? >> i was going to say, i mean, you can't undercommunicate this with students and communit

a report in "the baltimore sun" -- clinton fears of possible stunts during the trip. also this morning in the fed page of "the washington post" the chart on how many times the secretaries of state over the years have visited israel. this is a bar graph. we will take a look at it. the trips to israel during the first 60 months in office by secretaries of state. leading that was henry kissinger during the ford administration who spent 46 days in israel over all during the first 16 months, tench -- during the first 16 months, 10 trips. four by cyrus vance and the carter administration. warren christopher in the clinton administration took five trips in the first 16 months. hill record with two trips to israel, they write in the fed page hill of the clinton led a toward travel pace with the exception of one place, israel could make the fewest trips and spent the least amount of time as any secretary of state in more than three decades. georgia, russia -- russell is a republican caller about helen thomas and whether she should resign from the white house press corps. go ah

the baltimore sun could not afford that for a lot of cases. now they are available on the same day basis. they are available in fall or ray, and you see who the justices are. sometimes a reporting service gets it a little bit wrong, but we tell them about it and a correct it. these are great advances. they are probably among the most important things that john roberts has contributed to, in terms of press coverage of the court. >> thanks to our panelists. let us as to anybody in the audience has a question for us. >> i actually have three questions, and i will let you decide which you want to take. the first is what do you think is the fact, inside and outside the beltway, of the citizens united case. the second is, you talk a little bit about the role of solicitor general. what you think? does the personality matter? the third question is more pop culture. did you see a recap on hbo and did you think that was informative for the american public to see how bush versus gore would look in the supreme court? >> it is an extremely important role b

prior to his appointment at calvary, he presided over several methodist ministries in the baltimore conference. his many accomplishments includes serving on various community councils including terms as president of the baltimore-washington board of pensions and the council on finance and administration. reverend brought is the proud husband of mary kay and father to two children and grandfather to soon-to-be four grandchildren. i ask my colleagues in the house of representatives to join with me in congratulating reverend brought on a career of dedication and service. and i yield back. the speaker: thank you, mr. sarbanes. the chair will entertain up to 10 more additional one minutes % on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: thank you, madam speaker. this week congressman glenn nye and i introduced the sweep act. this legislation would require an independent bipartisan commission be established to review federal programs and make recommendations

here is a message via twitter on all of his -- here is the front page of "the baltimore sun." in 63 had-year-old saying bp is doing what it can, and he would buy bp gasoline. although today he is filling up at texaco. the headline of the store -- some customers may never return. the money section of "usa today" bp dividend cut looking likely now. shares sank 10% monday. if you look at the business section of "the new york times" today, it says -- business section of "the new york times." ogden, kansas. norma, republican. caller: i personally think president obama is doing the best he can. i agree with this other guy. this is a criminal investigation. they should have made sure the reputation of british petroleum -- i heard over two a couple weeks ago that they had over 800 safety things against them and yet they were allowed to drill. i agree to the moratorium. quite frankly, i did not know there were that many down there. it is shocking. i have been praying for god to give people the knowledge to stop that. but, no, it is a criminal investigation. don't blame the present. bla

within i.c.e., including special agent in charge in washington, d.c., special agent in charge in baltimore, and he also ran our financial investigations program at headquarters. he also served overseas in frankfurt, germany. he began his law enforcement career with u.s. customs. he later transferred to san francisco. he went on to detroit. he also holds a bachelors of science of criminal justice from the university of detroit. ladies and gentlemen, i would like to welcome director james dinkins. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i want to -- i'm not going to take up a lot of your time. i was looking at the agenda and it looks like you have a full day ahead of you already. i do want to welcome everybody here to the ipr center. thank you for coming to the symposium. this is the largest conference we've had at the ipr center since we opened two years ago. i think it is very fitting that the topic is one of the most important topics, dealing with i.p. theft. that's the connection between terrorism, organized crime, and i.p. theft. the connections are real. i think you'll hear some great c

somebody who was turned away on induction day when i went for my physical at haliburt avenue in baltimore for various physical reasons, but as fate would have it, i'm now chairing the veterans' affairs subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial affairs. and we were in the middle of a hearing yesterday on the state of veterans benefits administration when i had the honor to welcome general david pontoon who is taking over as superintendent of west point, which is in my district, replacing the general who served there longer than i've been in this congress. and it's a very proud tradition at the army's academy. was founded shortly after our revolutionary war at the point of the hudson river called the world's end, where the hudson takes a 90-degree bend to the west and then once again 90 degrees straight to the north. it's the point where the revolutionary army stretched a chain across the army to stop the british fleet from sailing up and influencing the battles that were taking place further north in the hudson valley. and to this day produces our officer corps that is going -- in

host: baltimore, maryland. terry on democrats line. caller: good morning. from an economic standpoint, i from an economic standpoint, i am an unemployed for the past two years. as bp so powerful and so strong? i mean, i have some connections in the has mat and they're just not hiring. i would like to know what the heck that is all about. i sent off an e-mail to the white house and i never got a response back. guest: so in other words hiring people to work on the cleanup. i can't answer that question. from what i hear, it sounds like there's a lot of people on the payroll down there but i don't know the details about that. host: does exxon still have any direct involvement on prince william sound? guest: exxon is a third owner of the oil fields. so the oil that's going through prince william sound is still there. they've never had much of a presence in alaska as a company and they are not really responsible for the oil, you know, the oil spill preparations that are in prince william sound which are very, very extensive now. host: georgia. republican line. ca

baltimore, maryland, keith, republicans line.aller: yeah, i just wanted to know, i mean, with this thing down in louisiana, i mean, i think it is ridiculous that they are letting these people get away with this kind of stuff. hello? host: yeah. caller: yeah. i think it is ridiculous they are letting people get away with this stuff. host: let's look at that news coming out of the gulf of mexico. this is from the associated press. bp chief executive said sunday he will not step down over the oil spill and predicted his company will recover from the disaster. hayward said he would not quit and he had the absolute intention of seeing this through to the end. "we are going to stop the leak. we are going to clean up the oil, we are going to mediate any environmental damage and we are going to return the gulf coast to the position that was prior to this event. we are making good on our promises." democrats line. caller: this may be the most important primary of my generation i have ever seen. [inaudible] -- there is a gentleman i suppor

there has to be some fairness host: daring in baltimore. independent line. caller: i have a comment and question. i fish and spend a lot of time outdoors. this oil spill hurts me so bad. it is terrible. i feel like crying every time i look at that monitor. but this does not show the big picture. we need a different form of energy. we need engineers and scientists working on improvements in the ethanol, solar, winn. we cannot keep using oil. my question for you is will you support a comprehensive climate change bill? guest: i did not support that climate change a bill but i have been the leading proponent in the house of representatives for as close as possible to having an all-nuclear navy. ddg51 is the finest warship in the world, but it need to be refilled every few days. that is a will or ability. should an enemy take out our oilers, the vessel cannot sail. we put some money into some programs this year to come up with a smaller nuclear reactor that will fit inside a ddg51. i am not disagreeing with you. we have the world's greatest military but we also h

leigh ann tuohy, the mother of baltimore ravens football player michael oher.as betrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie opened "the blind side -- she was portrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie: "the blind side." >> it is my privilege to intruce for the first time dr. leigh ann tuohy. >> it's good to have some women appear instead of men helping me. i am truly honored to be up here today. when cbu called, our schedules are crazy right now and i hesitated a little bit. my husband has to call a doctor tuohy took on a whole different meaning. so here i am and i am happy, let me tell you. i don't know how many of you know our story. that think three years ago that i would be standing here speaking much less giving a graduation speech to an amazing bunch of people was beyond my wildest imagination. but we firmly believe that god is in control of the story of our lives right now. we learned about you, lue was one of them. you guys are going to leave here today and go out into the world

i started in baltimore. i went on to direct the mayor's office of the employer development.e had a heavy emphasis in dropout prevention and youth recovery. longevity -- i mean, i was involved in the implementation of everything from the huge entitlement program, all the comprehensive saturation models that the department of labor had. i was there for the use entitlement programs in 1978. -- for the youth entitlement program in 1978. these were at department of labor funded efforts to actually begin to address the problem. i then participated as a coach with the launch of the youth opportunity program, helping other communities with the systemic comprehensive reform. now, i do the national policy work. that is not to pat myself on the back. we have known for two decades the kinds of things that would work in terms of putting young men of color and disconnected use back on track. there has been researched. there is a lot of innovation about what it takes so that this does not have to continue to happen. what we are lacking is political and public will to make the continued inv

host: baltimore,jnck maryland, independent caller, go ahead. caller::this is my first time calling. host: welcome. caller: i hope you give me a+ little bit of time. i am 24 years old. i am not heavy into politics. i first had a problem when they looked at the cap on companies being able to devote as much money as they possibly could on presidential campaigns or any campaigns. i thought that was strange and nobody understood or grasped the concept of this. no matter how much money we have, the people of the united states could never outbid exxon or bp. i see this oil spill and they they fund everything we do.ment, people look at these politicians and they would not have their jobs to the was not for us. the only way government or this situation could be rectified is it week, as citizens -- there are people who might not like somebody -- this is the emotional. there are many people who are losing their families, their homes. at the end of the day, we are all americans. we are sitting here watching our country, what does get traded off. for money. at the end of the day, we catch -pthe

bachelor of science in 1988 and a masters of science in nursing from the university of maryland-baltimoreecond lieutenant in 1989 and has held numerous leadership positions in critical care, ambulatory surgery, and primary studies. she has done it all. she is nastily asserted that as a critical care registered nurse and a clinical care registered nurse specialist. she was in an expeditionary nursing support unit during operation enduring freedom, and for the air force theater in response of iraqi freedom in 2007. her proud family and friends reside in ohio. [applause] >> thank you, diane. like so many of you, i served overseas far from home. i'd deployed out to iraq in 2007, and cared for our wounded who fought so bravely and i fought to save them as their bodies lay broken amid the chaos of war. while we saw many fight for their lives and received a purple heart, we sang "amazing grace" and cried as others slipped away. i care for young man who suffered ones that would take his life. in his face, i saw all the brave warriors to fought in defense of our nation. i made sure he was not in p

host: jane from baltimore. you're on. please go ahead. caller: yes. hello. i was watching rachel meadow back during the debate, and i remember, like, almost every day they twonet town halls and where people were getting crazy. and i remember when she was exposing not all of the stuff because we don't want to all call all the tea party people crazy, but she was exposing some of this stuff to be setups of the corporations. so i have two questions. my first question is would this legislation pretty much do what rachel mado was doing, and two, what do you think the chances are for a clean energy bill this year? >> there was the issue of arrest astro turfing where corporations or advocacy groups were kind of beginning up some of the protests -- gining up some of the protests. but frankly a lot of it was concern over the health care bill. this wouldn't address that. this goes specifically to election engineering questions. as far as an energy bill, it's not an issue i cover every day, but the senate is the challenge there. it doesn't seem to be a lot of con census

leigh ann tuohy, the mother of baltimore ravens football player michael oher. she was betrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie opened "the blind side -- she was portrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie: "the blind side." >> it is my privilege to introduce for the first time dr. leigh ann tuohy. >> it's good to have some women appear instead of men helping me. i am truly honored to be up here today. when cbu called, our schedules are crazy right now and i hesitated a little bit. my husband has to call a doctor tuohy took on a whole different meaning. so here i am and i am happy, let me tell you. i don't know how many of you know our story. that think three years ago that i would be standing here speaking much less giving a graduation speech to an amazing bunch of people was beyond my wildest imagination. but we firmly believe that god is in control of the story of our lives right now. we learned about you, value was one of them. you guys are going to leave here today and go out into

you had a speech in baltimore on monday. here is what they said you told the crowd. among the lessons learned, are that the potential for disaster were grossly underestimated and past injury rates are poor indicators of future catastrophic events. what do you think? guest: commonly, the oil industry will say our industry is safe. we know that the risk of high- consequence, low-probability event, have nothing to do with whether people are slipping or falling. it is like saying you do not want a safety because it pilot has not been injured. we had an explosion with oil refineries. in 2005, it killed 15 people. the injury rate is quite low. we are trying to focus the oil industry and taking safety seriously in a different way. those are important, but they have to look at the process safety issues. what sort of back up do they have? what steps are they taking to ?void catastrophic events nex host: what if we take the world oil and applied to the 20,000 people already deployed to clean-up the gulf? guest: we are very concerned. we are examining what is going on to insure

baltimore, md., on the independent line. caller: thank you. i did have something on afghanistan, but i will talk about the economy. i would not mind paying $4 and change for ethanol, if that is what we could do. we really need to get off of an oil-based economy. that is the only way that we will not be in crisis again. this oil spill should be a lesson enough. we do not have the knowledge to clean up the spill. we have a six-month moratorium on drilling. people are saying there are jobs lost and we cannot afford to stop drilling. i rather stop it and be safe, and know that if another spill happens that we have the facilities to clean it up. we obviously do not. this the peekskill -- people did not realize is they're sitting at home watching the tv how big this spill really is. host: looking at our news, justices uphold a ban. there were editorials in both " and york times" and washington post which disagreed with the court findings -- from both "the new york times" and "the washington post." caller: obama campaigned on shifting attention from

. >> the first question comes from baltimore. >> i am with reuters. i have two questions. first of all, on the terminology, admiral allen, you called this a top hat. it is not the same top hat bp was going to use in may, a smaller version of that copper daily. this is a smaller contingent cap that has a seal on it. second of all, but this ongoing operation and the lowering of the cap and the jagged part of the pipe, will you give us an update later today when and if that takes place? >> we will. we will absolutely do that. it is a little confusing because the very first containment system they developed which was unsuccessful was followed by the development of about five others that vary in their capacity related to how wide they are, what kind of seals they have on them, and what manifolds are set up. they could kill the show clients that are on the lower marine riser package. they could kill the choke lines that are on the lower marine riser package. the sale allows it to go over a riser pipe. that pipe is not exactly vertical now. it is 10 degrees and gold over. the rub

baltimore, teresa on the line for democrats.+ good morning. caller: good morning. everybody does have good opinions, but i do want to say that as far as the general -- if he is not doing his job, maybe this should have been looked at before. he's been in office for some time now. mmybe they need to take a good look at this and find out if he should be fired, and find someone else that could do his job. at all times, someone is always there to replace someone else. host: two e-mails from our viewers this morning. remember, you can also send us a tweet. another e-mail -- kentucky, rick on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. i am a a vietnam veteran. in corporations and businesses in america, you have to have order. you have to have charged and dismiss rules. i believe the president should pull the general in in private and discuss this with him. expllin what he is doing and keep this thing under the hat, and then let the public rule on his decision. as far as this collateral damage we're talking about in afghanistan, you are dealing with peo

we will go to baltimore. steve is joining us on the republican line. good morning. caller: -- host: you are on the air. caller: i was calling in regards to your question about a double- dip recession. i do think there is a significant possibility. i'm thinking it is pre much going to be as a result of all of these pretty much socialist programs -- using this as a perfect opportunity for them to not go out and look for jobs. we have had this problem for a long time, people living off the system. i don't think the current administration is helping spoon feeding people millions of dollars we cannot afford. i think there is a definite possibility we could be heading back into recession if we don't tighten down on the obama administration. host: the senate today is expected to confirm general david petreaus to lead u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan. here is a story this morning on general mcchrystal. he will retire with four stars. white house spokesman marlin did tuesday -- robert gibbs said tuesday. phoenix, arizona. mack, independent line betty caller: i think we ar

host: jane from baltimore. you're on. please go ahead. caller: yes. hello.was watching rachel meadow back during the debate, and i remember, like, almost every day they twonet town halls and where people were getting crazy. and i remember when she was exposing not all of the stuff because we don't want to all call all the tea party people crazy, but she was exposing some of this stuff to be setups of the corporations. so i have two questions. my first question is would this legislation pretty much do what rachel mado was doing, and two, what do you think the chances are for a clean energy bill this year? >> there was the issue of arrest astro turfing where corporations or advocacy groups were kind of beginning up some of the protests -- gining up some of the protests. but frankly a lot of it was concern over the health care bill. this wouldn't address that. this goes specifically to election engineering questions. as far as an energy bill, it's not an issue i cover every day, but the senate is the challenge there. it doesn't seem to be a lot of con census co

host: i saw a story yesterday in "the baltimore sun," i think it was, or a 17-month old girl contracts gonorrhea. is that something your office should work on? guest: there are horrific instances of rape of children, grew some physical acts -- gruesome physical acts. in services for children, we do a holistic view as well. we will be looking at a comprehensive assessment of children who are exposed to all different kinds of of violence, is perhaps being one of the most horrific forms of a violent -- this perhaps being one of the most horrific forms of violence a child could experience. host: st. louis, good morning. caller: susan, thank you for your work and all that you do agree i communicated last week to you because i work in the african community, and the violence against women is increasing throughout the nation, especially among refugees and immigrants. beyond the grants, how do you address funding disparities for smaller communities? i know we discussed this last week, but on a larger scale, how do you addressed nationally defunding disparities? -- the funding disparities? guest

. >> the first question comes from baltimore. >> i am with reuters. i have two questions. first of all, on the terminology, admiral allen, you called this a top hat. it is not the same top hat bp was going to use in may, a smaller version of that copper daily. this is a smaller contingent cap that has a seal on it. second of all, but this ongoing operation and the lowering of the cap and the jagged part of the pipe, will you give us an update later today when and if that takes place? >> we will. we will absolutely do that. it is a little confusing because the very first containment system they developed which was unsuccessful was followed by the development of about five others that vary in their capacity related to how wide they are, what kind of seals they have on them, and what manifolds are set up. they could kill the show clients that are on the lower marine riser package. they could chilkill the choke lines that are on the lower marine riser package. the sale allows it to go over a riser pipe. that pipe is not exactly vertical now. it is 10 degrees and gold over. the

larry from baltimore. good morning. caller: good morning, sir.very much for taking my call. i have a few comments. jobs -- we have a job problem in this country. we are well aware of it. the government does not do anything about the illegal immigration. there are over 35 million illegal immigrants in this country, and i am sure most of them are working. why will the government not do something about illegal immigration? the government, again, subprime loans and all of that -- it was the government that forced the banks to give loans to people that could not afford to pay for them. you and i know that. the banks were smart enough to bundle some of these loans up and sell them overseas. that is why it became a world crisis. it was basically a u.s. cent housing bubble -- a u.s. housing bubble. the government forced banks to give loans to people. social security -- we have problems for social security. how many people are on social security that have never given one dime to social security? i will give you an example. gay people from mexico, over ill

host: jane from baltimore. you're on. please go ahead. caller: yes. hello. i was watching rachel meadow back during the debate, and i remember, like, almost every day they twonet town halls and where people were getting crazy. and i remember when she was exposing not all of the stuff because we don't want to all call all the tea party people crazy, but she was exposing some of this stuff to be setups of the corporations. so i have two questions. my first question is would this legislation pretty much do what rachel mado was doing, and two, what do you think the chances are for a clean energy bill this year? >> there was the issue of arrest astro turfing where corporations or advocacy groups were kind of beginning up some of the protests -- gining up some of the protests. but frankly a lot of it was concern over the health care bill. this wouldn't address that. this goes specifically to election engineering questions. as far as an energy bill, it's not an issue i cover every day, but the senate is the challenge there. it doesn't seem to be a lot of con census

"the baltimore sun" talks about the gulf states bracing for oil. "the miami herald" -- we need to protect the state. "the tallahassee democrat" on the gulf coast. below that, tar about 10 miles offshore. continuing from the front pages, "the times picayune" -- hicks snag. bobby jindal hails federal ruling on barriers. in pittsburgh, the oil spill at the top. speech, but the headline, obama defense policies. they have the flotilla attack on their front page. israeli p.m. defense flotilla attacked -- israeli pm defends the flotilla attack. and this headline, nuclear option not on the table. a lot of callers suggested putting a nuclear device down in the wells to seal it. "usa today," it the oil spill dominates their. -- "usa today," the oil spill dominates there. as anxiety rises, focus turns on limiting damage. we will show you some more from pages after a few telephone calls. pensacola, florida. thomas on the republican line. caller: i'm a little surprised c-span is becoming so thin skins host: not all, just wanted to use the call as an opportunity

host: next up, baltimore, maryland. mike on our line for independents.aller: i want to thank you for c-span. my question, i'm not really -- too familiar with the whole credit card thing. but from what a commercial i heard before, the commercial was something like if you've got bills and they're pretty high, we erase the debt for you or something like that. are you familiar with what i'm talking about? guest: there are a number of programs that you can use to help reduce your card debt especially if you are in a position where it's just become unmanageable. what i would say to you, i don't know the size of your debt and you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. but what i would say to you is the most important thing that any credit card expert or personal finance expert will tell you is to keep making payments, keep paying as much as you can toward that balance because the last thing that you want is for that payment to go into collections and for you to be in even worse situation. but there are a number of agencies, credit counseling agencies that

. >> the first question comes from baltimore. >> i have two questions. on the terminology, you called this top hat, but this is-with the smaller cap that has a seal on it? second, with the ongoing operation, and the lowering of the cap, and the jagged part off the plate, will you give us an update when and if that happens >> we will, we will absolutely do that. it is a little confusing. the first system was followed by the development of about five others that very incapacity regarding to how low ebb and why do they are, the kind of seals they have, and killing the choke lines. the current one they are looking at -- if you took one step back from having the best we could get, that is what they are looking at. it has a rubber seal. allows them to go over and the regular play. it is not exactly -- it allows plate. it will not be exactly a perpendicular fit. given the type of cotton have right now, this is the cost containment tapped to be used -- given the kind of cut they have right now, this is the best containment tapped to be used. >> the next question

open keep an ear open for japanese, chinese, italian, polish, ukrainian in the crowded streets of baltimore, pittsburgh, san francisco. the newsstands are bursting with newspapers in all these linkages and more. multiple his papers because in many of these languages, you had to have one paper for regular organization democrats and another one for socialist and another one for union members. the grandchildren of the children who ran those streets are some of the same people worrying openly about what these new immigrants will mean to our old country. from all the data, my best advice is to not worry. if you watch spanish-language television or listen to creole radio in miami or brooklyn, what do you hear? every couple of minutes, you hear ads for night schools, take language courses, cd rom language courses for the whole family. no one is developing these products, pain for the ads, and buying the courses for kicks. no latino family doubts that the acquisition of english for themselves and for their families is absolutely vital for climbing, the bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder to g

the next call comes from jack in baltimore on our independent line. caller: thank you for c-span. we can't get out of afghanistan. i think we are only fighting half of the enemy. i believe the representatives of afghanistan are really the problem. they seem to be holding the american troops up, or something else is going on there. it makes no sense. if we are going to fight a war -- i don't understand -- i am an army brat. mostly everybody in my family has been military. i had an uncle -- my father was in the second world war. brought up through vietnam and korea. at the same thing. i don't believe we are doing this the right way. i understand afghanistan and pakistan and the situation there. and we are just not doing it the right way. if we are going to go in and win, go in and win. if you are going to go and play games just to drag things out for more money and more this and that, it doesn't make any sense. host: veronica, a democrat. reston, virginia. caller: thank you for your public service. first, my background. both my parents worked for the cia. and i have several question

threats seem over blown keep an ear open depending on which coast you are the crowded streets of baltimore and cleveland. the news stands are bursting another one for socialist and union members the grandchildren of the children who run those streets are some of the same people worrying openly from all the data, my best advice is, don't worry what do you hear? every couple of minutes, adds for night schools cd rom languages. no one is developing these products, paying for the adds or buying the courses for kicks no families that doubt the acquisition ofen lish for themselves 7% said it is possible to get ahead in america only speaking spanish having said that, take a look at queens new york how does a largery mono lingual society continue >> all speak english. network that's helped them 100 years ago didn't transfer well. the private voluntary agency schools. well born, well educated women moving in to the lower east side a stalled escalater. great difficulty getting ahead. that the lines are hardened which is a frightening thing for america to conquer. not only don't you start that feedba

host: dale, the front page of "the baltimore sun." is says that money is expected to flow into maryland highway projects up until 2012. stimulus money will come in until then. richmond, virginia. charles on the republican line. caller: happy father's day. i do not think the states need more money. i think people should learn to go without stuff, and maybe they will get up and work and realize there are two kinds of people -- moneymakers and money takers. this is not about aid to the states. this is about a redistribution. it is about the controllers who want to create or government dependency, more debt, and more worthlessness. if somebody wants to make it in this country, they can make it. but it comes from hard work and personal responsibility, not the federal government. host: here is another our call on the "the new york times". -- another article by "the new york times". illinois raised the retirement age to 67, the highest of any state in caps public pensions. arizona, new york, in mississippi will make people work more years to

abram loft, who spent time in prison for fraud and corruption, he works at a kosher pizzeria in baltimore. it says -- also in "the new york times" this morning, they cover cnn's decision to bring elliott's big sur to the anchor dax -- eliot spitzer to the anchor desk. also, jim demint on the front page of "the washington times." they are suggesting he is expanding his clout all the way to utah with the wind of might leave. -- win of mike lee. that is "the washington times" today. the last -- al gore has an opinion piece in "the wall street journal," along with david blood. if you get on any political website today, you will find a story about a former vice president that he is surely not pleased. it is virtually everywhere. oregon investigated sex accusation against gore. this was broken apparently by "the national enquirer" about 24 hours ago but it is now all over the political news cycle. let us go back to calls. we are talking to you about president obama's decision yesterday to accept the resignation of general much -- general mcchrystal and put david petreaus in charge of afghanista